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Yerba Mate tea
After going with a friend's recommendation to try Yerba Mate tea, I'm likely never going to drink coffee as a energy source ever again.
Yerba Mate has...
- as much antioxidant as any good green tea
- like most stimulants, is an appetite suppressant.
- has half the caffeine of coffee
- increases metabolism.
- is thermogenic. "Thermogenic" means that it actually induces the body to burn calories.
- it contains quite a bit of chromium which is good for dealing with hypoglycemia, which do have from time to time.
I'm going to be heading off to two weeks of very intensive Oracle DBA training back east and I'm bring several boxes of yerba mate with me.
Yeah. Yerba Mate is nuclear rocket fuel.
I like Guayaki Yerba Mate. Orange Blossom and Chai are both excellent flavors.
thanks for the link. i like your project. keep in touch!
joe,
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I haven't had many other types of Yerba Maté tea other then what I bought at the People's Co-op. I very much prefer the un-smoked varieties.
Glad you liked it, Jeremy. ;)
heheh
Yerba mate: the tea with vitamins! Drink yerba mate (pronounced YeR-bah MAH-teh) and enjoy the health benefits of the tea with vitamins and antioxidants. "Brewing" yerba mate green tea in a mate gourd with a straw is the antioxidant South American equivalent of the greentea ceremony--originated by the native rainforest tribe; the Guarani. Learn what is yerba mate?, it's medicinal properties, la leyenda de yerba mate, and how to cebar (to pour and serve) a perfect mate or mate cocido (become el cebador perfecto)--all possible on our information page.
Many herbs benefit the health when used as a supplement, but few herb teas will also act as a coffee substitute as well... in Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Brazil (and now here in the United States) drinking yerba mate does just that. Yerba mate is lower in caffeine (contains theine, or mateine--in the molecular class of xanthines) and just doesn't give most people the health risks, jitters and crash that coffee is known for. Yerba mate side effects are generally little or none.
Our decorated gourd mates are our pride and joy. Imported from all over Argentina (la Pampa, Buenos Aires, Patagonia, Cordoba, Misiones, Corrientes), as well as created ourselves, our gourds represent the finest in Argentine mate art. Besides Argentinean styles we also carry mates from Brazil, Uruguay, and Paraguay. Called calabazas in Spanish (sometimes called calabash here in the U.S.) the gourds are tinted, burnt by pyrography, decorated with wire or silver, covered with leather and tooled... or left organic and natural.
Our yerbas are all low cost... sold with pure leaf (pura hoja: despalada) or regular with some "stick or twig" (con palo), in tea bags (mate cocido), or instant (Instantaneo): a powdered extract. The "loose leaf" kilo (2.23lb.) bags of yerba (ilex paraguariensis in Latin) can be used in the yerba mate gourds with bombilla for traditional yerba mate preparation, in a guampa as terere (iced water mate tea), with herbs and spices for chai tea, or cooked as delicious stovetop mate cocido. We carry Canarias from Brazil and Uruguay, Rosamonte yerba mate (especial, and regular), CBSe (with herbs and flavor), Taragui, Cruz de Malta (Larangeira), Las Marias, Nobleza Gaucha, Union.
Our bombillas are the finest quality imported tea filter straws--made of stainless steel (acero inoxidable), german silver (alpaca), bamboo (tacuara), nickel plated (niquelada)... some even with 18k gold tips. Some are openable for cleaning others with fixed ends: none of them of the cheap, gaudy touristic variety.
We also carry accessories of all kinds: stainless steel pavas (tea kettles or water boilers), beautiful tabletop aggarrobo wood yerberas for your tea and sugar, filter bags, bombilla brushes, and leather mate bags (materas).
Oh... and if you're going to spell things funny just don't put an accent on the 'e'--as on the end of mate; it's simply not done. I'd rather you spelled illegitimate things like (and we've seen them): herba mata, jerba matta or erba mati, herba matte gords or gerba mati gorde, herbe mattas ghords, or calebasse for matta drinking. Other legitimate ways of spelling these things are: erva mate, or hierba mate... grab your termo, jump in a terma! or just wwwnetitalltogetherinto www.yerbamate.net !
Thanks,
we look forward to doing business with you,
Sincerely,
Karl & Marisa
theYerba Mate Tea Gourd
this stuff is the most awesome stuff! it tastes delicioso! and it's good for you! :)
Buy the loose yerba matte and try making it in a french-press coffee maker. You can make it thick like the Argentinians drink it from the gourd.
Sounds good to me too, tea can be so much better than coffee, I tried a natural Herbalife product and it just got me convinced. I'll keep searching for more products like this, they are all great for our good health.
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I love tea as well i drink it all through out the winter green tea mainly some times chamomile then in the summer it's always iced tea in the fridge. I try and drink it over coffee since it's much healthier. I know it's full of nutrients but i also get discount vitamins online since they are cheaper to supplement anything i may be lacking.
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